Long-term enrollment behavior of degree-seeking students at Guam Community College [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 3282911
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Watt, David Graham
- Description:
- 239 p.
- Summary:
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This study described the long-term enrollment behavior of students at Guam Community College and examined the effect of selected demographic, academic and non-academic variables on their enrollment behavior. The culturally diverse sample consisted of 1417 degree-seeking students first enrolled during the 1982-83, 1983-84, and 1984-85 school years. Fifty-three of these students graduated from the College during the 1984-85, 1985-86, or 1986-87 school year. Two aspects of enrollment behavior were described: (a) registration rates, which identify the percentage of a group of students enrolled each semester (and measure the groups's persistence), and (b) span of enrollment, which identifies the proportion of individual students enrolled for a given number of terms after three, six, and nine consecutive terms have elapsed (and measures the individual's persistence).
Overall study findings included: (a) registration rates decrease most between the first and second consecutive terms and, (b) although 60 percent of the students registered for at least two terms, 75 percent registered for not more than three terms. Study findings for selected variables included: (1) Enrollment behavior differed neither on account of gender nor age, but did differ by ethnicity. Micronesian and Filipino students persisted more than Chamorro and other students. (2) Enrollment behavior differed by (a) program of study (computer science, criminal justice, and electronic engineering majors persisted longer than business and construction trades majors), (b) academic aptitude (students who enrolled in remedial courses persisted longer than students who did not), and (c) academic progress (students who made satisfactory progress persisted longer than students who did not). (3) Enrollment behavior differed by initial term of enrollment and program length.
Students first enrolled either Fall or Summer term persisted longer than did those first enrolled Spring term. Students pursuing 60-credit degree programs persisted longer than students working on 30-credit certificate programs. Implications of the study include: (a) increased first-to-second term retention may increase registration rates thereafter; (b) shorter programs may better match enrollment behavior; and (c) retention programs may be needed for specific, at-risk groups of students.
- Notes:
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- (UnM)AAI8825751
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-09, Section: A, page: 2515.
- Adviser: John E. deJung.
- Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Oregon, 1988.
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.
- Subject:
- Education, Community College
- Other authors/contributors:
- University of Oregon
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 1988
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